Students at NU speak several languages (e.g., Kazakh, English, Russian, and possibly some other languages they learnt at secondary schools or in their families).  But how does language affect the brain?  The study says that people who are bilingual have longer attention spans and a better ability to focus (according to researchers from the UK’s University of Birmingham). Researchers performed tests on a group of people who spoke only English and another group who since an early age have spoken English and Chinese.  Read more about this study here.